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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Muriel Gottrop~enwiki (talk | contribs) at 15:13, 5 February 2004. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

I delete old talk. If you are very curious about it, you can have a look in this old version or the things i deleted in Dec 24


Book that every Wikipedian, especially sysops, should read:

Animal Farm, by George Orwell

Why Wikipedia:Make only links relevant to the context is excellent advice:

and because de-linking gives more work than adding them

BP

Since i'm out of here for a while, i think the BP refreshing will be taken care of in my absence. My feelings are:

  • we should remove from BP everything except unanimous decisions to keep, stated by more than 2 users - because we must be strict. It is also in my opinion a way to encourage people to polish the removed articles.
  • the boilerplate should be always in the Talk Page - because its absolutely of topic. The VfD notice is not comparable because in this case the article is not in a life threatening situation.
  • if the boilerplate is agreed to be put in the main article, please - at the bottom!

Happy new year and stuff for all Muriel Victoria 17:08, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC)

You'll be missed! Have a good Wikivacation, and we'll keep the front porch light on for you :-) BCorr ¤ Брайен 17:03, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Have a very nice break :) You've certainly earned it. Sarge Baldy 17:18, Dec 24, 2003 (UTC)

So now what do we do? We need:

  • a set of criteria for what stays/goes.
  • an announcement of when we're going to finish.
  • to do the work.

I'll start today on Village Pump.

Scipio Family Tree

Hi Muriel, just asking: where do you have this great Scipio Family Tree from? Did you make it yourself? I would like to take it for the German Wikipedia, that is why I ask. -- Baldhur 18:38, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply, Muriel. My intention for asking was that I wanted to know where to find the best resolution scans in order to translate them myself. If you don't mind to do it yourself, that would of course be great. Just drop me a note, if you rather would let someone else do it. I will let you know tomorrow (or so) which family trees I am interested in. (Would it appear too impudent, if I'd say "all of them"?) -- Baldhur 22:45, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hi Muriel, I just decided that I would like to have all family trees for the German Wikipedia. I will translate them myself because I cannot expect from you to do all that work. I just read your message on Ktsquare's page and learnt that you used Corel Draw. Are the current versions the best quality versions, or do you have some better resolution scans on your harddisk (because I would rather use them and then compress them again). Can you tell me the font and the font size used for the captions, so that I can use exactly the same fonts?
As for "importing through the languages", I would just save the images on my harddisk and re-upload them to the German 'pedia after translation.
Anyhow, these trees are really great work. I am impressed. -- Baldhur 21:54, 9 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Family Trees (again)

Hi Muriel, I am just wondering which sofware or utility you used for creating those marvelous family trees? I would like to take them to the Chinese Wikipedia and I can translate them to Chinese if I can actually work on the image texts? Thanx. 大将军, 都督中外诸军事 (talk) 01:16, 7 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Small suggestion for "Roman Legion" page

Muriel,

Enjoyed reading your "Roman Legion" page (On this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_legion) I have a tiny suggestion though: "In several occasion of the history of Rome, the legions played an important political role." should instead read "On several occasions over the history of Rome, the legions played an important political role". I think. English is not my first language, so you may want to double check. I am just pretty sure the original version is not grammatically correct :) (11:39 AM, 27 January 2004 (PST) )

-denis

141.209.33.144

Hi Muriel, regarding one of your reverts to an edit of User:141.209.33.144, I no longer have an issue with that user as they have explained their intentions at their talk page, so I put their additions back in. If you had your own reasons you may revert it back, but I just wanted to make sure it wasn't being done because of me :) thanks, Dori | Talk 23:34, Jan 27, 2004 (UTC)

Oscars

Hi. The new format looks good. I'd say go on with it. I don't know of anybody else working on them. RickK 03:22, 29 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Poll

Are you happy with the outcome of the poll on what is now Featured articles. Bmills 13:21, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

By the way, welcome back. I'm not mad about the Featured articles change, but it was better than Authorised articles! and nobody has undone my addition of Featured atricles under New articles on the Main page. Indeed, people are rotating them regularly. Bmills 13:33, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Rio! Now I'm jealous. Enjoy yourself. Bmills 13:37, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Muriel, if you are about, a question: If "Archidioecesis Melburnensis" is Latin for Archdiocese of Melbourne, what would the nominative form be - Melburnium? Melburnia? Should this be described as Modern Latin, pseudo-Latin or what? Would you have any idea why the "o" has been omitted in creating the Latin form? Adam 03:43, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC)

OK I will ask Adam B about the Latin. Yos is not only alive and smiling, he is secretary of the ex-Soviet War Veterans League and amazingly active. I hope I am half as good at 88. Adam 23:21, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Daniel Alan Clymer

I just had a confusing encounter with an article titled Daniel Alan Clymer. It started as a user page, then a redirect, now I can't even tell what the history is indicating since the original user isn't even listed as creating the page. I was trying to have it deleted as a vanity page or invalid redirect.

I was adding this to VfD but you may have been in the process of doing something else. Can you let me know if you plan to take action on the remaining page?

Thanks - Texture 17:02, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)


Note For Your Attention

You edited the Tony Blair review from his time in Ugly Rumours out, saying Wikipedia is not a place for reviews. Where the review is the first public commentary of the Prime Minister of Great Britain and shows the characteristics of how he became the leader he now is, it is, Thankyou Tony The Tiger 13:31, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Block

It's pretty obviously a sock puppet, today's edits are the only ones from that IP. - Hephaestos 16:18, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

rocks and minerals project

Since you've contributed in the rocks and minerals area before, wanted to let you know that I created a WikiProject Rocks and Minerals if you'd like to join. Elf 04:48, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

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